Night boat to freedom

Title
: 
Night boat to freedom

Personal Author EPSB
: 
Margot Theis. Raven

Summary
: 
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.

Year Published
: 
2006

Physical Description
: 
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Note
: 
"Melanie Kroupa Books."

Awards
: 
Jane Addams Children's Book Honor, 2007

Subject
: 
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
 
Slavery -- Fiction.
 
Underground railroad -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.
 
Perseverance
 
perseverance -- empathy

Geographic Term
: 
Kentucky -- History -- 1792-1865 -- Fiction.
 
Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Fiction.

Added Author
: 
Lewis, Earl B.,

Summary
: 
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.

ISBN
: 
9780374312664

Publisher
: 
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.


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HardistyE RAVBook30512000126878Picture Books